TY - RPRT AU - Brown, Sarah AU - Taylor, Karl TI - The Reservation Wage Curve: Evidence from the UK PY - 2014/Oct/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 8519 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8519 AB - We investigate the relationship between an individuals' reservation wage, i.e. the lowest wage acceptable in order to enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment – the 'wage curve'. KW - unemployment KW - reservation wages KW - wage curve ER -